Can't start acroread from menu

Configuration General Questions
1

I have tried to make this in my .fvwm2rc file:

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AddToMenu MyApps “MyApps Menu” Title
“&4. Acroread” Exec exec acroread

but for some reason it only works if I specify the whole path:

+"&4. Acroread" Exec exec /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/./acroread

Acroread works fine if I just open a shell and type acroread.

Any ideas?

2

You should make sure you are logged in to your shell with the same user that started up fvwm. If that’s not the problem then beats me.

3

FVWM ws probably started with a different $PATH to the shell. It can happen depending on how you start FVWM, how you launch your shells, and where you define your PATH